Legal action is opening up against the Verizon decision to block email from Europe (as well as China and New Zealand) in a bid to cut spam. The block has been in place since the 22nd December last year.
This decision does seem odd, since most of the spam that we receive actually comes from America.
John Vincenzo, a spokesman for Verizon, said that the "vast majority" of Verizon's 4m dial-up and DSL customers are happy with its "long standing" policy on spam and virus filtering. He conceded that some otherwise legitimate email has been blocked but gave no indication that Verizon has any plans to review its policy. Vincenzo declined to comment on the class action lawsuit or explain how Verizon's filtering worked, beyond saying that the policy applied "globally".
According to Verizon, the loudest complainers about spam blocking are actually spammers themselves.
Philadelphia law firm Kohn, Swift & Graf, P.C. filed suit this week against Verizon on behalf of a DSL subscriber in a civil case that seeks class action status.
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